You probably remember that the UK Supreme Court issued a major decision in April which said sex was real and binary. In theory, that should put an end to a lot of nonsense related to trans ideology, but in practice the ideologues don't give up just because they've lost. There was already a case working its way through the court system which had started in December 2023 involving a nurse named Sandie Peggie who told a trans woman named Dr. Beth Upton to get out of the female changing room. Very briefly, here's what happened.
The row centres on an encounter between Ms Peggie and Dr Upton on Dec 24 2023. The nurse experienced a sudden and heavy period and feared that it had bled through to her scrubs.
Ms Peggie entered the female hospital changing room to find Dr Upton and challenged the medic’s presence. Within hours, a bullying complaint was lodged by Dr Upton and the nurse was then suspended.
The investigation of the complaint was a complete sham and last year Sandie Peggie sued over her treatment by the NHS.
🧵1/ 🚨 She said NO to sharing a women’s locker room with a man… and they tried to DESTROY her.
— CitizenGO (@CitizenGO) July 21, 2025
This is the shocking story of Sandie Peggie, a Scottish nurse suspended, investigated, and dragged through hell for defending women’s spaces. 👇
We are all Sandy Peggie ✊ pic.twitter.com/aBNcJjNo9M
That led to a trial that is happening this week. To say the trial has been an eye-opener is putting it mildly. The fact that Dr. Upton was trans meant that all of the ideologues on staff were immediately looking to validate "her," rules be damned.
Naomi Cunningham, barrister for nurse Sandie Peggie, said there was a “pattern” of “rules being bent and the usual boundaries transgressed” to favour trans medic Dr Beth Upton.
She challenged Dr Kate Searle, an emergency medicine consultant at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, that the “usual rules don’t apply when dealing with Dr Upton, do they?”.
Dr Searle disagreed but Ms Cunningham pointed to an email she sent to Dr Upton, passing on a message of support from Jamie Doyle, the hospital’s head of nursing.
The barrister said Mr Doyle was involved in the investigation and “shouldn’t it have been obvious to both you and Jamie that that was a wholly improper message from him.” Dr Searle replied: “In hindsight, yes.”...
The tribunal had previously heard how Dr Searle had emailed 19 of the hospital’s consultants shortly after the incident to state that Dr Upton “knows we all support her, and that we condemn the actions of Sandie”
In other words, they all rallied around the man in the woman's changing room and then communicated behind the scenes despite being warned not to discuss the case while it was under investigation. They even arranged to interview Dr. Upton first so that everyone else could get their stories straight.
And that was just the start. They also spread rumors that Nurse Peggie had endangered patients by refusing to work with Dr. Upton.
Dr Beth Upton's boss Dr Kate Searle broke down in tears twice during tense questioning at Sandie Peggie's employment tribunal as she denied helping to make up a "serious" allegation about the veteran nurse...
She faced a grilling from Ms Peggie's counsel Naomi Cunningham about disputed claims that the nurse put patients at risk by walking out of a resuscitation cubicle to avoid working with Dr Upton, and refused to communicate with him about another case.
Dr Searle backed up both these accusations but it was put to her that she was "determinedly trying to round up witnesses to support Dr Upton's version of events.
Dr. Searle later admitted that these were career-ending allegations, if true. In fact they were so serious that failing to report them (if you'd witnessed them) would also be a major career misstep. And yet, no one would come forward to back them up. When this was pointed out to Dr. Searle she burst into tears.
The real value of this trial isn't just in revealing how the woke mob attempts to destroy and silence anyone who disagrees with them, it's also showing everyone just how extreme the views they hold are. This thread contains some actual quotes from the trial. In fact, all of these are from one day of testimony.
“Being called a man is derogatory.”
— boswelltoday (@boswelltoday) July 23, 2025
—Dr Teddy Upton, the male A&E doctor who changed in the women’s room.
This was part of the hate incident report filed against nurse Sandie Peggie.
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(3/15)
“If he says he’s a woman, he’s a woman. That’s the rule.”
— boswelltoday (@boswelltoday) July 23, 2025
—Isla Bumba.
There was no trans policy at NHS Fife. But this was the de facto rule.
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(5/15)
“Trans women are less of a threat than men—except Isla Bryson.”
— boswelltoday (@boswelltoday) July 23, 2025
—Bumba, naming a convicted rapist who was placed in a women’s prison.
This was the only example she gave of risk.
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(7/15)
“Periods aren’t sexual, so boys mocking them isn’t either.”
— boswelltoday (@boswelltoday) July 23, 2025
—Dr Upton.
This was his response to questions about whether menstruation-related taunts were sexually harassing.
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(9/15)
“Biological sex is just a belief.”
— boswelltoday (@boswelltoday) July 23, 2025
—Jane Russell KC, counsel for NHS Fife.
She repeatedly objected to witnesses calling Dr Upton “a man,” arguing that was merely a belief—not a fact.
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(11/15)
Yesterday, J.K. Rowling offered her thoughts on the case in a lengthy tweet. In a few paragraphs she perfectly captures what is going on here, a kind of elitist bigotry aimed at anyone beneath them.
The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace.
'Diversity officer' Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn't bother consulting the 1992 regulations guaranteeing single-sex spaces when she told a trans-identified male, Dr Beth Upton, to use the female changing room at the hospital where he was working. Bumba justified this decision with comments that I assume sounded really clever and convincing, inside her own head.
'I don’t know anything about Beth’s body. I didn’t at the time. I don’t now. I don’t need to know. But it wouldn’t be something that I would ever have the information of exactly what she is made of, biologically.'
Kate Searle, a consultant in emergency medicine, backed Bumba up, expressing outrage on the witness stand that anyone would be so insensitive as to ask about Upton's chromosomes.
‘I could only imagine how upsetting and invasive a question that would be for Beth, and also not relevant to a colleague to ask another colleague. Beth identifies as female, and it does not matter what her chromosomes are to her.’
In Bumba and Searle's world, a belief that gender identity trumps biological sex is proof you're intellectually and morally superior to women like Sandie Peggie, so I'd imagine it's come as a shock to discover, in a blaze of public and press scrutiny, just how idiotic and cruel they appear to people outside their dinner party circle.
When Upton, a 6' tall, 28-year-old ex-rugby playing male, claimed that a petite 50-year-old female nurse was making him feel 'unsafe', his word appears to have been taken as gospel. Searle, Bumba and management fell over themselves to coddle the middle-class doctor who shared their voguish post-modern views on gender. What did Sandie matter? She's just one of those ghastly uninformed bigots who still thinks sex is real and important - so embarrassingly gauche and simplistic! Whisper it - she probably drinks red wine with chicken, too.
Well, the nurse who was supposed to shuffle off in disgrace wasn't having it. Sandie Peggie refused to be sacrificed on the altar of elitist ideologues who believe themselves to be higher and better than she is. She fought back, for herself and for every other woman who's currently being silenced, persecuted and punished by a smug management class that preens itself on its virtue while imposing rampantly misogynistic policies on its workforce.
Sandie Peggie is a heroine. The woman NHS Fife thought they could treat abominably without any consequences to themselves has succeeded in shining the brightest spotlight yet upon the brain rot and compassion deficit suffered by supposedly intelligent people when they embrace gender identity ideology. Women everywhere owe her a debt of thanks. Whatever the outcome of this tribunal, Sandie Peggie has already won.
The trial is still ongoing and may not wrap up until next week. But as Rowling suggests, we can already draw a whole lot of lessons from this regardless of the outcome.
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